Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1960
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NOTIFICATIONS. The following table shows the total (corrected) number of cases of Infectious Diseases received during the year.
Disease | Under 1 year | 1 and under 5 yrs | 5 and under 15 yrs | 15 and under 25 yrs | 25 and under 45 yrs | 45 and under 65 yrs | 65 yrs and over | TOTAL |
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Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Dysentery (Boydii type 2) | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 14 | 17 |
Dysentery (Flexner) | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
Dysentery (Sonne) | 1 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 13 | 2 | - | 50 |
Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 3 |
Food Poisoning | - | - | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 15 |
Measles | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | 15 |
Meningococcal Infection | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 |
Pneumonia: AcoInfluenzal | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 4 |
AcoPrimary | - | - | - | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Poliomyelitis s Paralytic | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | _ | 1 |
Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | 11 | 8 | - | - | 19 |
Scabies | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 3 |
Scarlet Fever | - | 6 | 12 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 20 |
Whooping Cough | 3 | 28 | 30 | - | - | - | 1 | 62 |
TOTALS | 5 | 59 | 73 | 20 | 31 | 7 | 21 | 216 |